Replanting and Eternal Bonds

It began about a year ago—an unusual journey of receiving and waiting and grieving and anticipating. The culmination of this special season is that beginning in August, Christa and I will be replanted with me as the senior pastor of New Hope Church in the Minneapolis metro. Over the past twelve months or so, and READ MORE

An Urgent Appeal

I have special friends scattered across Lebanon and Iraq and Jordan and so forth, doing ministry in an environment that may be the toughest in the world right now because of ISIS and the parallel efforts of radical Islamonazis. It is probable that those of us in the West cannot comprehend the immense strain the READ MORE

Trinity Western University

Here is a copy of a brief statement I presented today at the Evangelical Free Church of America’s ONE Conference in New Orleans regarding Trinity Western University. I am not smart enough to actually write anything down ahead of time, so I think this is the reconstruction of it, essentially word-for-word. I share it here READ MORE

URGENT: Help Minot Flood Victims

In response to the needs in Minot, we at Bethel Church are partnering with Trinity Evangelical Free Church in Minot by sending semi-loads of bottled water to assist them in flood relief efforts. They are establishing a distribution point to bless the Minot community with free water. We are confident your donations to their effort READ MORE